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| A girl admires her friends’ paintings at the exhibition that opened at the Equatorial Hotel HCMC on Tuesday - Photo: Kieu Giang |
“We firmly believe that such an event only helps to bring out best artistic abilities of children who have gone through un-imaginable difficulties in their lives,” James Montenegro, the hotel’s general manager said.
“As this is the 13th year that the hotel has hosted this event it has already become a tradition for us,” Montenego added.
The exhibition introduces 100 colorful paintings depicting joyful moments of children in the Mid-Autumn festival and paintings of landscapes and still-lifes.
They were created by street children from the HCMC Center for Education and Vocational Training for Street Children and disabled children from Anh Minh and Hy Vong 1 School for Deaf Children, Gia Dinh Disabled Children and Thai Binh High School.
Visitors at the exhibition on Tuesaday morning said they were amazed to see how beautiful some of the paintings were.
Montenegro said all the money raised from the sale of the paintings would go to help disadvantaged children in HCMC.
All of the paintings are priced from US$40 to US$50.
To share with disabled and street children a happy Mid-Autumn festival, the Hotel Equatorial HCMC together with celebrities including actor Chi Bao, singer Hien Thuc and model Trung Cuong handed over 100 gifts of candy, moon cakes and lanterns to the schools that had contributed the paintings.
The exhibition is on display at the hotel lobby at 242 Tran Binh Trong Street, HCMC’s District 5 until September 30.
